Memorandum
Date: March 4, 2025
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Susan Parker, County Administrative Officer
Stephen L. Carter, Jr., Assistant County Administrative Officer
Matthew Rothstein, Chief Deputy County Administrative Officer
Subject: Adopt Resolutions Affirming the County of Lake's Highest FY 2026 Community Project Funding Priorities, and Authorize the Chair to Sign: (a) Resolution Authorizing Submittal of the South Lakeport Regional Water Resiliency and Fire Protection Project for Consideration as a Community Project Funding Proposal; (b) Resolution Authorizing Submittal of the Reentry Housing and Workforce Development for Those Returning from Incarceration in Lake County, CA, Project for Consideration as a Community Project Funding Proposal; (c) Resolution Authorizing Submittal of the Lake County Healthcare Education Innovation and Simulation Center Project for Consideration as a Community Project Funding Proposal
Executive Summary:
On Wednesday, January 29, 2025, the County received a Letter from Congressman Mike Thompson inviting Community Project Funding requests. As with the FY 2025 cycle, the letter noted Final Guidance from the Appropriations Committee had not been developed, and that remains the case. Congressman Thompson is asking that priorities be submitted by end of day (Friday) March 7, 2025.
On February 25, 2025, your Board voiced unanimous support for submittal of the following three projects:
(1) The South Lakeport Regional Water Resiliency & Fire Protection Project ($7,211,500) is a cooperative intergovernmental effort between the City of Lakeport and County of Lake. This Project proposes to extend City of Lakeport municipal water service to a currently unserved County of Lake jurisdictional corridor along South Main Street to Soda Bay Road, terminating at Manning Creek, and includes a crucial loop line going west under Highway 29 to connect with an existing main on Parallel Drive. Spanning approxim...
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